Big data, cities, and GIS
GEOG 40323
March 27, 2018
“Big data”
Source: AdAge.com
“Big data”
Source:
Dallas Business Journal
GIS and big data
Industry examples:
Sensors & “smart cities”
Transportation (ride sharing & self-driving cars)
Cell phone data/location analytics
Deep learning/anything Google does
Sensors and “smart cities”
Uber
40 million rides/month; 2 billion rides as of 2016
Data:
Uber Movement
Self-driving cars
Self-driving cars
Source:
Sanborn Maps
Self-driving cars
Source:
The New York Times
Cell phone data
Lessons Learned from Analyzing Over a Million Points of GPS Data - CARTO
Politics really is ruining Thanksgiving, according to data from 10 million cellphones
Cell phone data and location tracking
Google Maps!
Google Imagery:
https://lp.google-mkto.com/Google-imagery.html
Deep learning and Google Maps
Google Maps & deep learning examples
Try it out: Google’s Vision API
https://cloud.google.com/vision/